Headlight-lens.



W. PUFF. HEADUGHT LENS.` APPLICAUON HLED ocr. 24. zsm.

1 ,27 5, 304: Patented Aug. 13, 1918 @Hoang GEORGE W. PUFF, OF J EANNETTE BOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

HEADLIG-HT-LENS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13,'191e` Applieiition filed October 24, 1917. Serial No. 198,232,

Y To all whom 'it may www1.-

Be it known 'that l` (licentie ll. Puri-i, :i citizen of the 4United States, residing at Jeannette Borough7 in the county of West- A, inoreland und Hint@ ol Pennsylvania, here invented oei-tuin new sind useful Improvements in llt-nellig'hflienses` oi' which the following is :i specificati' i, reference being had to the encorepzinyi` r.; drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in lenses for automobile minne, :nel pnrtiew laily to ineens for preventing glare.

ln automobile lamps using; e` pernbolie re Hector, the ilnineniof the lmnp is snppoited et or neer the focus of the relleetmf.

Lamps of this tyiiie nre objectiemible for the reason that i-eys :zi-e directed upward, as

.well :is dii'eitly 'l'roin the lamp, and podesu 'ti-inns and other ce1' drivers using: the rond are 4deszled by these upwardly directed dividing the frosted rays. In many locations, the lew requires that some ineens be provided for preventing the use of lainps throwing' upwardly dif rectedreys and this has resulted in many deiiccsbeing put upon the market to overu come this diilioiilty, many of these devices, i' however, acting to 'reduce the light emitted by the lamps.

The general olijest or' my invention. is the se provision of e headlight lens, so constructed that use shell be inode of all. the lighteinltted from the lamp, but further serein y strut-.ted that tlierewill be no glare from the x lamps which will he thrown into the faces 3b oi" per, riens or other oer drivers, and that stheei int rays, they :irre celled, which l :ire die ted upward and forward from. ve weint below the forel axis of the lamp will e dellectecl downward.

A-'further object of the invention is to provide ai lens of this character in. which y the nii-zins for interrupting or deflecting these upwardly directed rays is formed es peril of the lens itself, iii the forni of it 4e' rib extending across the` fece of the lens end noting in addition to reinforce and strengthen the lens.

' A further object of the invention is the provisiongof e lensrof this character', int; Iyi/hiolrthenpper heli? of the lens is frosted or otherwise foi-ined to produce e diffused lighting eil'et, the: lower half of the lens beim; iinlrosed,l there beingI e ltrans-V verse dieinetricifl'llfy is'posed rib of glass and imrosted portions et 'the lens from eeeh other) and eating to prevent the passage-,fof upwardly directed rays fi'olnthe'light and to deflect these rays downward. i

Other objects will appear in tle course of the followingI description.

My invention` is illustrated in the accompanying 'drawingsy wherein Figure l is e vertical sectional. View ot' en nntoinobile headlight with my improved lens applied thereto;

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diffused and clear light;

Fig. 3 is a. fece View of the lens; Fig. Il e section on the line 4,-4 of Fig. en" F 5 is rig. i y

Referring to these figures,` it willbe seen that lens l0 is approximately concave-convex in form end is provided 'with e flatten- 'nular inergin-1l. Vlih'sienolilig; dieinetrcally across the lens. in e substantially horizontal Vplaine is e rib'lZ,4 preferablyA oi glass-.this rib hel-ving somewhnttli'e shape of arrether flattened, n'errow'iep Zvisoi'. f The rib in plan' view tapers toward-its ends, thatis, the middle portion, a of the Irib et the. apex of the lenig/has e depthof 'substeiitiellyy1';l and then narrows toward the extremities b of the rib. This rib does not extend across the marginal portion 11.. The under face ol the rib, for its entire length, is slightly upwardly endinwurdly inclined, vend the upper fece of the rib throughout its ,entire length extends upward end'toward the sui'- -fiice of: the lens at n slightlyl greater angle 4than the under face.4

has a thickness et the middle vrci of approximately l and this thickness is practically constant for the entire length of the It will be seen that thebase of the rib is e, section on the line 5-5 of thickestl at the middle lend that the thickness-of the base of the ribgrsduallv -becomes less toward the ends of the rib, so i that theline of junction between the .upper fece rof the rib and the body of the lens is slightly bowed upwerdl l lens of the charieter above described or, other like surface, Whi

is :in elevation of the e-iitomobile. headlight :ind lens, showing the areas of;

The rib atits edge eliminates el] glare from eutomobile lamps'f. for the reason thetthelight which passes? through the upper portion-'0f the leiisu is diil'iised and' softened bythe groundf-glss" the light rays.

' .is any glare caused from being formed to diiiuse ber extending ati-r,

`innn'lediately above and upward and outward7 strike the rib 12 and are interrupted. and there broken up or deeoted downward. The'lower portion of the lens, being of clear glass, permits the light .rays to be directed most eleetively therethrough, so to seol'irethe full. lighting value of the lamp and permit a thoroughly good illnminationoif the road.

The reason for forming tholens concave convex so that the lensprojeets 'forward from the'hou'sing or lamp is to provide for the headlight. being seen from the side as Wellas-froln the front, and to admit of a better illumination of the road transversely of the .latter than Would be the ease were the lens fiat or a relatively flattened convex lens.l The reason for 'frosting the marginal portion 1l is to prevent the margin of the lens admitting brilliant livht, if the 1narginal Clamping flange of t 1e lamp housing does not entirely cover the marginal portion of the lens. The .frosted portion of the lens throws a niild and yet clear light but vthere is no glare from. this iight or any sharp rays. light from the lens As the lens is approached the the ripper or frosted portion of becomes d'nnner but at no tinie the upper portion of the lens.

Having described my invention, what l claim is:

l. A hea light lens, one-half of the lens light, the other half of the lens being of clear glass, and a ineinportion and interrliipting rays directed nplens rorn a point belowits axial Center,

2, A headligl'it lens ooimavo-oonvex in forni, one-half othe lens being of clear glass and the other half being formed to ydiffuse the light transmitted therethrough, the convex face of the lens being formed With a rib extending transversely across the lens and dividingthe elear portion of the lens 'from the. other portion, saidrib projeoting beyond those portions of the lens below the rib.

' 3. A eoneavo-eonvex headlight lens haviss the lena and dividing. the clear portion of the lens from the other ing an integral diametrically extending rib disposed on the oon Vex faoe of the lens, the under face of the rib being upwardl and inwardly inelln.ed,' the other face of t e rib being beveled, tho lens on one side of the rib being clear a nd on the other side being frosted.

4,. A. headlight lens having a concevoeonvex bod)vr pmtion with a marginal flat rini, the convex face of the lens bein.

A `tonoaro-eonvex headlight lens having a marginal flat flange and an integral rib on the convex face of the lens, said rib haring; its greatest thickness at the middle of the lens and narrowing in width. toward the ends oi the rib, the ribgfextending entirely across the convex face of the lens to the margin thereof, the.upper face -o the rib being inclined upward'and ltoward the body of the lens, .that portion of the lens below the rib being 'of clear 4glafjbs and that portion above the rib :being of frosted glass.

6. A eoneavo-convex headlightlens hav: ing a diametrieally extendingintegral rib upon its convex ace, said rib projecting downward and forward and extending diametrii-.ally across the lens. v

i". A headlight lens having a member e7(n tending dialnetrioally aeross it in a substantially horizontal plane, said member consti-toting a light deieeting and that -porunder face of Said rib .being I alsv hood and extending downward and forward 'at a slight angle.

ln testimony my signature the presence of two. witnesses.

GEGRGE PUFF.

Witnesses:

SAMUnLR Sonnen,

LOUIS WHITEMAN.

'whereof hereunto aliX 

